Amy Morris Amy Morris finds her mother after 30 years of separation.

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What do I notice or wonder?

I chose this article because it is based in the south and from my hometown of Georgia. It amazes me that someone is taken from their home and loved ones to be enslaved and they then are able to reconnect after 30years. She was sold many times and moved all over the south and couldn’t keep in touch with her family. This article also interested me due to how they were able to get in contact with one another via sending letters. In today’s time if I want to find someone I just hope on the internet and Facebook searched them and bam we are back in contact and I never had to leave my couch.

Time and Place

This article was from 1884. This is during the time that slavery was still a common practice and is why many slaves chose to leave the south to avoid being bought and sold as slaves. She was mistreated so badly that she finally had enough and ran away. She made it to some ships that protected her and then she went to cook for the army where she was treated better than her past.

Conclusion

Now that the war was over and she could try to find her family again she did. She was married and started writing many of letters to try and reach her family. She was able to finally reach her children by sending a letter to the Minister of the Gospel in Georgia. It might have taken almost 35years but there are some slaves that never have that time to continue searching. It makes me happy that she never gave up hope and was able to find her family once again. her mother after 30 years of separation.